Sovietobserver wrote:
If you love your dogs that much, you don't leave them in stables.

A townie comment! All over the country 'proper' dogs (ie not your pampered pooch with the dog bred out of it) do reside quite happily in stables and the like, for a variety of reasons including rat catching, guarding, working farm dogs - fact is they are healthier for it! Being indoors with central heating is not good for the health of a proper dog - active dogs who live outside can come and go as they please rather than being constrained to the house and unhappy ... horses live in stables too, and are loved, you'll be saying take the horses indoors next!!

[quote][p][bold]Sovietobserver[/bold] wrote:
If you love your dogs that much, you don't leave them in stables.[/p][/quote]A townie comment! All over the country 'proper' dogs (ie not your pampered pooch with the dog bred out of it) do reside quite happily in stables and the like, for a variety of reasons including rat catching, guarding, working farm dogs - fact is they are healthier for it! Being indoors with central heating is not good for the health of a proper dog - active dogs who live outside can come and go as they please rather than being constrained to the house and unhappy ... horses live in stables too, and are loved, you'll be saying take the horses indoors next!!newsknight